Hi Caitlin,

I don't know about commercial supplies of diamond paint but it is widely used to up color and clarity grades of substandard diamonds. I guess a good crafts shop may have some "thin glassy lacquer" they can recommend for the purpose.

As far as fabulizing on a budget is concerend, you can probably find various colors of metallic spray paint (in atomizers and pressurized cans without FCCs) in the model-building sections of your local hardware stores. Just line up a bunch of strands and give them light dustings in various metallic colors rolling the strands after each color application and when you're finished with that, spray them with acryilic sealant lacquer for models. I think that's how they do it in China.

Zeide